User talk:Menshockeyswag

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The Wikipedia tutorial is a good place to start learning about Wikipedia. If you have any questions, see the help pages, add a question to the village pump or ask me on my talk page. By the way, you can sign your name on Talk and discussion pages using four tildes, like this: &#126;&#126;&#126;&#126; (the software will replace them with your signature and the date). Again, welcome! NellieBly (talk) 13:11, 16 January 2012 (UTC)

Your edit to Ice Hockey at the 2010 Winter Olympic Games
I wanted to let you know why I removed your addition to the above article. The text you added was a cut-and-paste from a copyrighted article at CBC News. Just because something can be found on the Internet does not mean that it is free or in the public domain. Lifting text verbatim from a source without crediting it is a frank copyright violation, and Wikipedia's copyright violation policies do not allow for that. Even with attribution, though, we wouldn't use such a long section (it's an entire article); we'd rewrite it completely.

It's also important that our text hold to a neutral point of view; in other words, a Wikipedia article should not contain phrases like "golden Olympic shimmer" and "heroics" and just report the plain facts, which this article already does.

Please don't cut and paste into Wikipedia articles in the future, and ensure any additions you do make are original, neutral in tone, and supported by reliable sources. Thanks. --NellieBly (talk) 13:11, 16 January 2012 (UTC)